I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component. Brian Chippendale More Quotes by Brian Chippendale More Quotes From Brian Chippendale I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer. Brian Chippendale musician suffering sight Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound. Brian Chippendale sound You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. Brian Chippendale painter musician masters It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh. Brian Chippendale able focus painful Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word. Brian Chippendale song mean believe Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window. Brian Chippendale language fun needs Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting. Brian Chippendale sound littles people It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth. Brian Chippendale nice earth people I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording. Brian Chippendale working-with-others littles people Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio. Brian Chippendale rocks radio people I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring. Brian Chippendale rocks easy play That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away. Brian Chippendale voice body sound Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing. Brian Chippendale insecurity singing fall There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside. Brian Chippendale successful people fall I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. Brian Chippendale therapeutic each-day trying Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium? Brian Chippendale eggs morning trying More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up! Brian Chippendale cereal people art Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do. Brian Chippendale becoming lines art A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music. Brian Chippendale different artist sound I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene. Brian Chippendale band people art
